Fisc is ƿæterƿuniendehrycgdēor þe is geþeaht mid sciellum and birþ tƿā tƿifealdnessa fina. Þæt mǣste dǣl fisca is oþþe "ūtanhātod" - hātod ūtan, lǣtende heora hāt ƿendan andefen begangendra hāta. Fiscas sind manigfealde on þǣm mǣstan dǣle ƿætera. Hīe magon in nēahlīce eallum gecyndelicum ƿæterigum ymbgeardum, fram hēam beorga strēamum (e.g., þætleaxincel and sēoblǣge) oþ þāfordēopan dīpe þæs dēopestangeofones (rihtor, sedrincend and seangelerfisc). Mid 31,500 cynna, fiscas habbaþ māran cynna fāgunge þonne ǣnig ōðer gecyndbrycgbāndra dēora.[1]
Ǣt genumen fram dēorum geset tō fiscum is ēacsƿā gehātenfisc oþþe fiscflǣsc, and is hefig mennisc ǣta andƿeorc. Cēapunge and andstandnesse fisceras "huntiaþ" fiscas inƿildum fiscstōƿum (seohfiscoþ) oþþe "rǣraþ" hīe in pōlum oþþe in dēorfealdum on þǣm geofone (seohƿæterbigenesse). Hī sind ēac befangen framplegendum fiscerum and rǣrdon framfischealderum, and sind īeƿed in folclicumƿætersteallum. Fiscas habbaþ gehæfd ǣrend on līfƿegum geond þā ielda, ƿyrcende tōgodum, gelēaflicum tācnum, and tō intingum listes, bōca, andscēaƿa.
